It's not the prequels of Wolfenstein 3D.  It's not the sequels of Heretic, Quake, and DOOM 3.  It's definitely not the repressed memories of Daikatana (who's gonna make whom whose bitch again?).  It's not the so-bad-it-was-just-bad movie.

But it is the so-bad-its-awesome Doom Comic Book.

It's the then top-of-the-line '486 that I bought specifically to play this game.

It's because I can still remember jumping out of my seat the first time I found one of those pink daemons.

But most of all, it's the fact the game didn't end even when I went to sleep that night.

Happy 15th Anniversary, DOOM.  Thank you, Carmack and Romero, for making a knee-deep-in-the-dead Hell on Earth so much God-damned fun.

Edit: FAIL!  15 years, not 10.  Blaming it on the beer.

I seem to remember Doom coming out in 1993.  Pre-Quake Doom was the last video game I was ever hooked on. 

I never did play DOOM, but I did love it's predecessor 'Wolfenstein 3-D'

I never did play DOOM, but I did love it's predecessor 'Wolfenstein 3-D'


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DOOM beat Wolf3D on moddability.  But I don't think Carmack or Romero ever imagined that it'd still be relevant enough to get pepper-sprayed!